“None of them stood up to save this club” – Tom English brilliantly reveals dealings with Craig Whyte and slaughters ‘Rangers guys’ who let club die

Ok, Celtic hero is clearly a joke but you know what I mean.

Craig Whyte is the man that is universally blamed for the death of Rangers by their fans which is weird because if you go with the logic that they are the same club then he never really did anything wrong.

Did he……?

No more digs but I did find this interview by Graham Spiers with Tom English on The Press Box very interesting as he discussed the business man and his dealings with him during the liquidation years.

Tom, in fairness, spoke very well in the podcast and never held back whilst recalling his dealings with Whyte and those in charge at Ibrox at that time, “Well, I found Craig Whyte absolutely compelling. Absolutely compelling in the way he could say black is white and white is black. And argue like until the the cows come home, knowing that he was wrong but he would argue.

“I did two big interviews, both of them on the phone with him. I don’t think I’ve ever met him actually. But I found him fascinating.

“My view on Craig Whyte was the club was up for sale for a long time for three or four years.

“And all of these Rangers guys, who had the club’s interests at heart and and worshipped Rangers and all the rest of it, never stood up. They never stood up now.

“It was because it was maybe the spectre of the big tax case. The fabled £50 million tax bill, put them off, but none of them stood up to save this club, to buy this club, from David Murray, who was financially was in trouble at the time.

“They allowed Craig Whyte to come in and do it. So in the beginning I felt okay, here’s a guy who’s actually had the guts to come in and try and take on this club.

“My first conversation that I had with him, the alarm bells were ringing when he said well. ‘You know, if the club goes into administration, that’s regrettable, but it’s not a big deal.‘

“So I wrote that and I thought, ‘Whoa, this is gonna get a big reaction’ and it didn’t really get a big reaction at all.

“I suspected that Craig Whyte was a wrong one. But I found him incredibly interesting in the way that he was savaging people, Paul Murray and Alistair Johnson. He was just laying waste.

“I did an interview and I started to work for the BBC at this time, I did an interview with him and he said, ‘Any Rangers employee that was caught talking to a BBC person will be sacked on the spot.‘

“ And I said, ‘Well, Craig, I’m a BBC person now’. And he said, ‘Ah well that’s different.‘

“It was just it was a bizarre era. Now, I fully accept that a lot of the other newspaper guys turned against Craig Whyte before I did. Absolutely.

“It’s not that I thought he was the knight in shining armour. It’s the fact that I wanted to kind of stay a bit close to find out what the hell was going on with him.

“But at the current time of the Ticketus scandal at that time I thought, ‘Right, okay. Do I have to cut my losses here and get out get out of dodge?’

“Which I did and I’ve never I’ve never spoke to him again.’